Angerstein Wharf on the river Thames in London has recently undergone new investment to install a new silt processing plant to improve product quality and customer satisfaction.

Previously, the wharf was limited to high stone content and low silt deposits. The investment has enabled the plant to process a wider variety of rich marine mineral reserves, allowing our UK Marine business to fully capitalise on the large array of dredging resource areas around the east coast and English Channel. This in turn will lower travelling times, balance their resourcing capabilities and reduce dead rent on dredging licences, all of which reduces costs to Cemex.

Another huge benefit from the investment is the improved quality of sand we can now produce at the wharf, enabling Cemex to supply the local Readymix plants as primary source, reducing logistic time and costs, and therefore CO2. This has had a positive impact on our customers who also gain a cement and cost saving over our competitor’s materials. The waste pressed product produced is now very dry and the wharf team can load it onto Cemex trucks for disposal straight away. Options are being considered for re-using the waste product in the future.